The Welfare Research Group
Focusing on inequality, health & social care and critical studies, this group’s research is conducted in a range of national and international settings, and adopts various theoretical and methodological standpoints.
Description
The Welfare research group brings together scholars with a wide variety of theoretical and methodological expertise and a shared interest in problematizing and exploring issues and posing research questions pertaining to welfare related matters, such as inequality, diversity, and social in/exclusion. Group members conduct research focusing on, among other things, the power dynamics of institutional settings, patients/clients within health care and social welfare, as well as on implications of policy and practice in these areas.
Group members
Research leader: Sandra Torres, Matilda Hellman
Research projects
- Arbetsmarknads- och utbildningseffekter av könstransition i Sverige
- Bidrar IBIC till förbättrad praktik?
- En jämlik arbetsmarknad i teori och praktik
- Manifestationer av ojämlikhet på den post-industriella arbetsmarknaden
- Samhälleliga engagemang bland den äldre befolkningen
- Är den palliativa vården jämlik?
- The resilience and accountability of the welfare state